Re-imagining Museum Studies: Review of Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism and Queering the Museum

Abstract

T recent books on issues of gender and sexuality in museum theory and practice frame the ‘queer turn’ in museums, complementing one another and following from Gender, Sexuality, and Museums: A Routledge Reader (Levin 2010). These new volumes, Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism, edited by Adair and Levin, and Queering the Museum, authored by Sullivan and Middleton, go far beyond LGBTQI+ issues, however, providing new perspectives and analytical lenses for the museum profession and museum studies in general.